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I believe the concept of HODLing Bitcoin is nearly as old as Bitcoin itself with the fundamental reason and hope that it will increase more in value over the years. Although several persons are entitled to there own reasons for HODLing, could it be that some persons HODL because they are waiting for the perfect time or they are too scared to sell or lose a percentage of their Bitcoin?

An investment is a strategic plan and should be treated as such, the length of time a person should hold should also be planned, the decision to sell should never be done on impulse, you don't hold bitcoin because you want the price to jump for you to sell, you hold bitcoin so that your cumulative holdings will appreciate in value with time, this is more or less the point of every investment done out there, so for bitcoin, no one should HODL out of fear, investors should HODL because it's part of their investment plan.

I believe people who hold BTC are not scared at all, they just have enough knowledge of the game, if you do your homework well you would realize people who hold BTC tend to gain more on the long run than those that trade, the percentage of people trading and realizing alot of profit is quite little to those that are loosing their investment, the risk is higher with trading you require indebt knowledge and understanding to be able to trade and make profit. So just go around the community and read more from the experienced investors in the platform and you would definitely find an answer that's my own take.

Bitcoin HODL is never a sign of fear as some persons might see it, holding bitcoin is a strategy deployed by bitcoin investors to maximize profit over a long period of time.
If you are determined to survive in your journey to bitcoin investing, the best method should be used, otherwise you will likely loose even loose your own capital.

There are persons who bought bitcoin when the price was relatively very low , let's say more than ten years ago and the same bitcoin is still in their wallet and they have also succeeded in making very massive gain from their little investment.

Bitcoin HODL is the best method to use , all you just have to do is to be patient and courageous, you will definitely make good gain from your investment with time.

As bitcoin be viruall asset and they get some kind of similarity with stocks this na assets wey you go hold for a very long time so if you they hold bitcoin you they hold with the intention say the thing go increase because na why them buy am be that, and bitcoin na something wey if you buy the price go still later increase so the thing make sence to buy, but the isseue now be say you have to hold for a long time, so if any one get the mind set say you they come invest for bitcoin say you go make sharp money na lie oh.

and i no blame you say you they scared because you fit sell now make the price come increase because na another challenge be that so we need know when to sell because some people they invest they no even know when to buy or sell , everything na planning if you they invest in bitcoin you need get enough kowldege so that you no go just waste your time when you wan invest to invest na to make profit, so make we no joke with to learn and to hold better money for hand because both they important.

There is no other reason to hold bitcoin other than making profits in the long run. Holding bitcoin doesn't mean being scared to sell, there is a season to hold and a different season that is appropriate for an investor to sell. It comes in a bear season where investors are intrigued to buy more, while the bullish season that comes after a bear season, is the season for investors to sell. Any investor that sell during the bearish season is doing the wrong thing, we hold bitcoin so to make maximum profits not cause we scared.

We are not expected to be holding without a purpose, one of the major reasons to why we should hold is in other to make profits, which is also what we are going to consider for when we enter the market and the price we are selling at, that is why before anything, we need to learn on how to speculate and know when best is for us to enter or exist the market, while holding should not only be for a fear of losing, but to preserve our assets, make profits from it and also see it not being affected by inflation over the years as we hold, this is the best advantage of benefits it serves everyone of use who hold, because some only trade, which is what they have decided to go for.

Being scared to sell isn’t the main reason why people hold Bitcoin. Yes we know bitcoin is very volatile but people HODL for long term, so they will be able to make good profits overtime. They’ve seen the advantage of holding for a long term, so they wouldn’t want to miss out by trading their bitcoin or holding for just short term because they know they might go into regret and loose at the end. So they prefer hodling for long in order to make good profits in the future.

This is not a sign of hodling Bitcoin that I am scared to sell because it is correct that the main purpose of holding in the long term is to rise capital, and to be part of a decentralized system. In fact through this strategy, we have the opportunity to take advantage of future increases in the price of Bitcoin and follow a hands-on approach that can reduce the need for frequent transactions and monitoring. Also many people hold Bitcoin as an alternative against inflation, so it is largely true that the investment strategy gives everyone complete control over their portfolio. Even more important is that there is no fixed time for investment but we have to monitor the market when we sell because investors will receive a certain dividend when they sell Bitcoin during a bull cycle.

It is not like people are scared to sell their Bitcoin. The reason they are holding Bitcoin for a long term and not selling some part of it is because they know that Bitcoin is a valuable assets and can skyrocket in the future so they want to make more money than the current amount they will make it they sell now.
Everybody have the right to hold or yo sell their Bitcoin, selling their Bitcoin is based on their own will but holding Bitcoin for long term will profit more than short term.

Investor Holding their bitcoin is for several reasons and part of it is that they are not ready to sell In loss and probably are hoping that by holding for the long run, the value of bitcoin will continue to increase which will in the process help to place them in a greater profit.

Being scared to sell is not entirely a bad thing as long as you're doing so to protect yourself. If you sell too early, you're going to end up being at loss. The future might seems uncertain but yet, it's still safer holding your coin for the future than selling it too soon because of fear.

Hodling for a long time is never a sign of fear to sell, Bitcoin is like the new Gold and most people are holding on to it because we all know how valuable of an asset Bitcoin is and you wouldn't want to sell now and watch the price skyrocket later in future. Bitcoin is a currency too same as Fiat currency and there's nothing wrong if I choose to hold on to my digital currency which is Bitcoin just the same way I have money in my Fiat account, everyone has different reasons for choosing not to sell and mine is hold and see what it does in future, I'm really curious to know how Bitcoin's price will rise in the next decade.

I believe While long-term profit is one major reason to HODL, it’s not the only one. Some people hold Bitcoin to hedge against inflation, to bypass banking restrictions, or simply as a store of value. Also, saying never sell in a bear market can be risky advice.

In real investing, personal circumstances and risk tolerance matter. Some investors might need liquidity, rebalance their portfolio, or exit to cut losses. Timing the market perfectly is almost impossible. A better approach is to have a clear plan and to know why you’re holding, set profit targets or stop-loss levels, and rebalance as needed rather than following a rigid always hold in bear markets rule.

It is correct the bitcoin concept of holding is as old as bitcoin itself a fundamental that serves as the core of profit making from bitcoin investment. An investment is without a deliberate calculated plan of how long you will be holding to land at a profitable timing when selling your bitcoin. Selling your bitcoin should not be driven by fud from the market.

A perfect time in selling our bitcoin do not practical exist correspondently to when can be accepted as the right time to buy bitcoin. Those that sold their bitcoin when it first moved to $100,000 ATH regretted when bitcoin got passed to $124,000 ATH. In a nutshell, a strategic bitcoin plan can handles all that fears.

Both reasons wey u adduced there dey tenable why people tend to hodl, and even more wey u nor write out. For me, na d second reason be my own. I dey like target certain levels or marketcap before I sell. I nor dey just wake up and sell off, except I hear sey d project dey get gbege. Gbege for project dey cause FUD and na betta way to crash price. I nor go fold hands watch profit wey I make disappear bc sey I wan prove sey I be hodler. No na. Sometimes too, I dey find am very unwise to sell off wen my token dey in loss. D only thing wey go make me do am bi sey I get an emergency investment to make wey go fit pull out betta ROI for me.

Due to the potential of Bitcoin increasing over time, the best way an investor can give value to the money they invested in it is by holding for longer period to add more and better value in the future so the concept of hodling is very important for every investor and every Bitcoin investor must abide to it for better profits.

 Yes, it very okay to be scared of selling your Bitcoin and miss out on giving more value to it in the future, those that are just at the beginning of their investment journey should be more scared of selling and hold on cause they'll definitely sell at lose if they do which makes no sense cause they'll regret selling when the value of Bitcoin increases.

It sounds kind of funny to me, why would someone be too scared to sell? If the reason is because they don't want to lose any percent of their coins, that means the person wants to hold the Bitcoin till eternity, which is not also possible, if the person doesn't sell those coins, then the person it's willed to will still sell them. That is also another reason for holding, to pass it on to some one in the future, not because the person is scared to sell, they intentionally didn't want to sell. The purpose of holding is to get more profit.

I think everyone has reasons why they are hodling bitcoin but I believe such reasons might not be far from what every hodler has in mind before considering hodling as the best option in bitcoin investment, bitcoin has made tremendous movement from the day it was created till now, it has appreciated from day one to its current price so I think it is a common believe that exist among bitcoiners that bitcoin will Keep making appreciative advances as it keeps existing that's why most investora prefer to hodl than to sell prematurely, looking at this Reason, you will understand that since bitcoin reaching $100k was predicted time a ago, people that believed in that invested heavily, some also invested the little they can, some didn't because of trust issues and their mindset, as we speak today many investors are swimming in profit be because that decision they took earlier.

And you said it well, Bitcoin is both money and an asset, so holding it is just like saving your fiat or stacking up gold bars for the future. Nobody can really predict how high it’ll go, but history keeps showing us that those who held longer came out stronger. So yeah, hodling is a part of the game, not weakness.
People may sometimes mistake it for fear, but it is actually discipline. Same way someone won’t rush to sell their land just because the price jumped a little, a real Bitcoin holder knows the bigger picture is ahead...

Perfect time for what exactly? I have never seen a guy that is being scared of selling his bitcoin unless he see that he's not in profit, of course when you see that you're not in profit you will want to continue making the HODL until you get to a point where you see that you're in profit then you can decide to sell some portion of your holdings. Once you reach the status of overaccumulation and you see that you're in profit there's no point of being scared of losing some percentage of your bitcoin Because after selling some portion you will have to allow it to compound upon itself or you start accumulating more bitcoin that's if you still have the strength to do that.

If one is actually scared he or she won’t be able to hold at all , but yes there are still fear when come to holding either you are scared if the project may crash but this is bitcoin is not like those anyhow shit coins . And also there are still fear of missing some folk are scared that if they sell they will miss out when bitcoin price eventually surges , but the reason why most folk hold is for longterm profit, because bitcoin tends to increase over time .

The main reason why many people hodl is waiting for the right moment. They don't want to sell at a price that is not good to their standards that, is why so many people don't want to sell but hodl waiting for the right moment that is comfortable by them is not that they are scared of selling.

The purpose of every investment is to make profits and same goes to Bitcoin investments. People merely take advantage of Bitcoin volatility, and the fact that it keeps increasing with time makes long term investment more ideal to make the best out of it.

Long term investment plan de help reduce selling at the wrong time which most of the time leads to losses. This mostly de happen among investors wey de new, they easily panic when the market is down and they don't check Bitcoin history to see how it has been doing. With long term investment selling prematurely is never ideal.

Everyone with how they defines their holdings and I believe people are holding for different reasons not just for price increases but to know what the future of Bitcoin would hold in terms to come maybe, who knows there could be a specific requirement which they could use Bitcoin to do.. Note that Bitcoin is not created for holding but it is created as a transactional system where one could use it for payment where fiat can't scale through, again it also stands as a financial freedom where you don't need any third party to monitor and control your transaction, in fact you are bank of your own with being Centralized rather becoming decentralized.

we all have different reasons why we hold bitcoin. There are people who holding to make long term profit while there are some who are holding to retain value or store value. Which ever maybe the reason at the end long term profit is more promising than short term holding. In other way , I don't if anyone is too scared to sell but rather some are holding because they have set a timeline when they will sell

Just like you said Op, everyone is entitled to their reason and different people have different reason(s) why they hold Bitcoin but I believe one of the major reason people are holding Bitcoin is because of profit and this is a general reason and I doubt if there is anyone that is not holding Bitcoin for this reason. And there also people who are holding just to have Bitcoin in their wallet while some are holding to be among the top Bitcoin holders. And the answer to the title of your thread is that holding is not a sign that someone is too scared to sell, some people don't sell until they get to their target or overaccumulation stage.

We often hear that if someone does not have much knowledge about crypto investment, then if he only holds his investment in Bitcoin for the long term, he will be profitable. Even though there is risk in other investments, an investor can hold his investment in Bitcoin without risk. Some people invest in Bitcoin because they get good returns in the long term, while others hold it because they do not trust other platforms. However, whatever the purpose, if an investor holds it for the long term, he will definitely be profitable. Even if the short-term Bitcoin price decreases, in the long term there is a high possibility of profit.

Everyone has different personal reasons for investing in Bitcoin and holding on to that investment. But everyone wants to make a profit from their investment. And long-term holding is important for making a profit from investing in Bitcoin. If someone thinks that the price of Bitcoin will go down and they invest and get good returns after the price goes up, then they are going to make a big mistake. Because no one can tell when the price of Bitcoin will go up or down. If there is a big fall in the market after investing, then most of the short-term investors get scared. And they immediately withdraw their invested money. No one knows how long the bear market will last.

So if we want to make a profit from Bitcoin, then we have to invest for the long term.

If an investor becomes too focused on HODLing, the pressure to sell at the perfect time can cloud their judgment. In scenarios like this , they are more likely to give in to FOMO and make decisions out of pressure, which could defeat the very reason they chose to HODL in the first place.

I don't believe that there's anyone hodling Bitcoin because they are scared to sell, people hold Bitcoin because they want their assets to remain in Bitcoin or they are waiting for the right time to sell and make huge profit from their investment.investors that are Holding your Bitcoin doesn't mean that they are afraid to sell, holding Bitcoin for long means more profit and every investor wants profits from their investments, and also a lot of people are accumulating Bitcoin now because they are aware of its worth so i wouldn't want to sell mine and be left with nothing.

Sure everyone has there reasons for deciding to HODL Bitcoin, but the truth is that, it’s just not about waiting for the value of Bitcoin to increase, HODLing carries a mix of fear, uncertainty and even conviction. It’s a personal choice that some investors have made because they believe in the long term potential of Bitcoin, and since the asset is very volatile, the safest way to actually benefit from its long term growth is to HODL. And for some, they have a particular target they want Bitcoin to hit, so they HODL until Bitcoin reaches that point.

I see some complications in your question. How long one will hold Bitcoin for any reason is a completely personal matter. It depends on how and through what process one is investing, how long one will hold Bitcoin or how long one will continue to invest. Those who have a correct idea about investing in Bitcoin hold Bitcoin for a long time. Because in the short term, the price of Bitcoin is very low and high, but after a long time, the price increases a lot, as we can see from the statistics of the latter. Therefore, if you follow the trend and make a long-term investment, there is a high possibility of profit in the future. In the long term, it should be a minimum of 4 to 10 years.

People are scared and sell Bitcoin when they see the price decreasing. Some people do not hold Bitcoin because of fear. Bitcoin is a long-term investment, through which the security of oneself and family is ensured in the future.